US Airways' Tentative Deal
With Pilots Helps Strategy

By

Susan Carey Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Oct. 2, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

A tentative five-year contract agreement between US Airways Group Inc. and its pilots union would lower the carrier's costs and move it closer to executing the growth strategy of Stephen M. Wolf, its chairman and chief executive.

If approved by US Air's 4,800 pilots, the accord would pave the way for the carrier to wrap up negotiations with three other unions and proceed with a big aircraft order placed last year with Airbus...